Registration for Spring K - 20 Meeting

Hybrid on Friday, March 1 at 1:00 - 4:00 pm

The 2023 - 2024 World Language Coordinator & Institutes of Higher Education (IHE) Meetings are being conducted in a hybrid format from 1:00 - 4:00 pm on Friday afternoons. The Fall K-20 Meeting was on October 6, 2023, and the Spring K-20 Meeting will be on March 1, 2024.

Please submit the registration form for the March 1 meeting, where you can indicate whether you are choosing to attend virtually or in-person.

Both of these K - 20 meetings are held just before the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) conferences, and ECU's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures is hosting the in-person site for the Spring K-20 Meeting.

Our agenda for the afternoon of March 1 is being finalized and will include information about the revision of the state standards, teacher education programs, and K-20 connections across educational organizations in North Carolina.

Thanks to the hard work of the World Languages Standards Writing Team (SWT), Draft 2 of the revised academic standards for World Languages is available for public feedback. The SWT used the Data Review Committee (DRC)'s Data Report with the input from the Draft 1 Standard-by-Standard surveys to make the following changes:

• Renamed the two strands that flow through the three standards, which are based on the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages;
• Continued to refine the wording of objectives drawing on the NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements to show the progression of skills across the nine proficiency levels, Novice Low - Advanced High; and
• Updated the proficiency outcomes for programs and courses in all three K-12 World Language programs: Classical Languages, Dual & Heritage Languages, and Modern Languages.

Please review Draft 2 of the proposed World Languages Standard Course of Study. It has been compiled with the standards and 12 - 15 objectives for each proficiency level at the beginning and the proficiency outcome charts on the last 11 pages of the document.

State Board of Education policy specifies that the NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) will formally collect feedback on the draft revised standards from educators, administrators, parents, students, institutions of higher education, business/industry representatives, and other education agencies. The purpose of this survey is to obtain input from educators and stakeholders familiar with the World Languages Standard Course of Study in order to inform revision decisions.

The NCDPI World Languages team requests your thoughtful input and comments on Draft 2 of the revised academic standards for World Languages to inform the revision process.

For World Language teachers:

• Subject Area CEUs or contact hours can be general, such as a workshop on World Language pedagogy, and/or language-specific, like a webinar about classroom resources for Spanish teachers.
• Teachers with K-12 licenses must meet the requirements for the grade-span corresponding to their teaching assignment. 

There are a variety of activities that can be accepted for renewal credit, including college or university courses, local in-service sessions, or workshops and events like conferences which have been approved by a public school unit (PSU).

The Foreign Language Association of North Carolina (FLANC) Advisory Board members have compiled a K-20 Professional Development webpage with information about upcoming hybrid, in-person, and online learning opportunities for K-20 World Language educators. It is located on FLANC's website under the Resources tab.

Current Professional Educator's license categories have World Languages under Special Subjects (K-12), and the list of languages available are posted on the Areas of Licensure webpage on its own tab. This is based on SBE policy LICN-001: General Licensure Requirements and a K-12 license code is available for many languages, even a number of less commonly taught languages, as listed below.

If any of your teachers are renewing a World Language license that is designated grades 6-9 or 9-12, they can request a change to the K-12 version of their language(s) if they would like to switch.

Also, if you have any teachers with the Other Second Language license who teach a language that now has its own license code, please encourage them to update their license information when it's convenient, such as when they convert or renew their license.

Here is the list of K-12 World Language license codes:

• American Sign Language (ASL) - 597
• Arabic - 582
• Cherokee - 583
• Chinese - 551
• French - 511
• German - 531
• Greek (Ancient) - 586
• Greek (Modern) - 587
• Hebrew - 588
• Hindi - 589
• Italian - 561
• Japanese - 541
• Korean - 592
• Latin - 593
• Portuguese - 594
• Russian - 581
• Spanish - 521
• Swahili - 595
• Turkish - 596
• Other Second Language - 585 [Only to be used if language is not listed above.]

Please go to the NCDPI Online Licensure System for more information. This is a one-stop shop for educators, school systems, and the general public to verify North Carolina educators' licenses, as well as the place for educators and school systems to submit license applications and renew a license, among other services.

Note: Renewal applications will be opened automatically by NCDPI in mid-April to early May for licenses expiring on June 30, 2024. An email will be sent to the educator when the renewal application is opened in the system. 

Feel free to contact the NCDPI Licensure Office by phone at 800-577-7994 (toll-free within North Carolina) or 919-716-1800.

• If you are having trouble logging in or need a password reset, press 3.
• If you have general licensure questions, and need to speak to a Licensure Specialist, press 2.
• If you are checking on the status of an application that's been submitted, press 1.